Example sentences of "[verb] be less [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basing themselves at York might have suited their training schedules and their travel arrangements , but it has been less than ideal for their public relations . |
| 2 | As numerous objectors pointed out , the amount spent annually by the government on research into renewable energy has been less than a tenth of the spending on nuclear research . |
| 3 | The actual rate of completion per annum over the last 27 years has been less than one half of one percent … thus even at several times the projected rate of progress , the great bulk of the conservation task will be incomplete at a time when the most vigorous additional demand is placed on land from massive upsurge of population . |
| 4 | Why do many people stay on the farms , with the result that this migration has been less than normal for the UK ? |
| 5 | San Jose , California-based Cypress Semiconductor Corp claims performance leadership in the Sparc world with its superscalar HyperSparc , but has been less than successful in gaining design wins against the Texas Instruments Inc SuperSparc — and Cypress has now decided to give up on the unequal struggle . |
| 6 | The variation in salinity at a depth of 1,600m has been less than standard deviations from the 1975–78 mean . |
| 7 | San Jose , California-based Cypress Semiconductor Corp claims performance leadership in the Sparc world with its superscalar HyperSparc , but has been less than successful in gaining design wins against the Texas Instruments Inc SuperSparc — and Cypress has now decided to give up on the unequal struggle . |
| 8 | Intel Corp has been less than enthusiastic about the future of its i860 — getting the 80586 into battle readiness in such a short space of time has taken up much of the company 's research and development resources in any case . |
| 9 | While the technique ( which combines content with process ) has been well documented , the research on its effectiveness has been less than exciting . |
| 10 | Some companies never go to the new issues market , and it has been calculated that ‘ in the past decade , in no single year have ordinary share issues accounted for as much as 10 per cent of the sources of capital funds , and the average has been less than half that amount ’ . |
| 11 | His armed forces are still dependent on non-Arab personnel , secrecy surrounds the extent of military ties with the United States and Oman has been less than enthusiastic in supporting Arab League action against the Camp David accords . |
| 12 | Where the information supplied to the Council has been less than adequate , discussions at meetings between representatives of bodies and the Council 's members and officers have been helpful in enabling the Council to obtain more of the information it wishes to have to assist it in determining the grant offer . |
| 13 | Rangers ' early season form has been less than inspiring but manager Walter Smith has put most of the team 's problems down to so many personnel changes caused by a succession of injuries . |
| 14 | In keeping with that statement growth in undergraduate numbers over the past few years has been less than 1 per cent a year . |
| 15 | Since nationalization there have been 19 , and their average period in office has been less than two-and-a-half years , half that of their British counterparts . |
| 16 | But they could still be summoned to appear in court to answer the allegations of their creditor , to admit or give good reasons for disclaiming them — if the sum involved was less than £5,000 in a county court , if more in the High Court . |
| 17 | Early encashment values are not guaranteed and may result in the amount received being less than the original investment ( please refer to the table below ) . |
| 18 | However , in 1993 the benefit from hedging was less than in 1992 as the gap between sterling interest rates and precious metal interest rates narrowed . |
| 19 | The teachers ' industrial action has limited this particular development , and the evaluators know of seven events which were either postponed or cancelled during the two years of the evaluation ; it is also probably the case that attendance at those events that did run was less than it would have been in happier times . |
| 20 | Back at the beginning of November we instigated our first car boot sale , which we reluctantly accept was less than a 110 per cent success . |
| 21 | Pentagon figures for Panamanians killed during the invasion and the fighting that followed is less than 300 . |
| 22 | The corridor he was facing was less than twenty ch'i long ; a narrow , dimly lit affair that was little more than a feeder tunnel to the maintenance hatch in the ceiling at its far end . |
| 23 | Had Barlow Clowes been shut down in 1985 , the total investment at risk in the offshore funds would have been less than £31 million . |
| 24 | After two hours , I reached firmer ground but became concerned that I could not see a four hundred foot escarpment which , according to the map , should have been less than a mile ahead . |
| 25 | Perhaps the individuals involved were too obtuse in applying conventional planning models with little regard for local feeling , and they may have been less than adroit in their handling of public opinion . |
| 26 | We made love again , and we must have been tired , because it ca n't have been less than two hours later that I woke up . |
| 27 | I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me . |
| 28 | Its population at this time can hardly have been less than 50,000 and may easily have been well over 60,000 . |
| 29 | Although incomes had to be given , assessment of the personal property of ‘ spiritual men ’ was not stipulated , and since the clergy were customarily taxed more heavily than the laity a good many of them may have been less than forthcoming . |
| 30 | Fresh , though he could n't have been less than thirty and Jezrael was still young enough to think that was old . |